Re: The Game of life

help disproving 1=0.999....

ok, so this has been driving me nuts since I first saw it on the site. I understand that the mathmatical difference between 1 and 0.999.... is so minute as to make them practically the same thing, but they are not exactly the same. I can see the math is screwed up . . . well, it's more that I feel it, but I can't seem to disprove this yet. can anyone help?

Re: The Game of life

Thank you bobbym for replying. I was all set to leave this alone after your post, but a co-worker (we'll call him: Mr. Coffee) got himself involved. He believes that there is a problem in the step where we subtract x from each side of the equation. The way he puts it is: when you do something to one side of the equation, then you must do it to the other. So when we substitute 0.99... in for x on the right side of the equation, we must also substitute 0.99... for x on the other side of the equation. this gives us: